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by intrasight 129 days ago
What's with variable names starting with "#" as first character?
2 comments
afishhh 129 days ago
If you are referring to class members in the JavaScript then those are private fields[1]

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

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intrasight 129 days ago
I had Googled my question too. Got no hits which is why I asked. Haven't seen it before.
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animal_spirits 129 days ago
That's just markdown headers. Some people like to include # as part of the header aesthetic
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chrisweekly 129 days ago
No, the Q was about javascript not markdown. Peer comment from afishh (9m after yours) has it right.
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